MEDEA, CONCEPT ART (2024)

Concept art by me. 

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Euripedes’ Medea opens as broken Medea mourns her husband’s infidelity in the aftermath of Jason and the Argonauts’ quest for the Golden Fleece.  Having betrayed her homeland and now on the brink of exile from Corinth, she plots for a final act of vengeance. 

 

The set is designed to isolate and illustrate the levels of a patriarchal society. The space brings Medea forward into the audience where she can be vulnerable and her story and arc can become the predominant narrative of the play. Medea’s space is rounded off to resemble an arena in which she becomes a spectacle for the Corinthian women.  

 

The space is also divided between an industrial world made of steel and treated plexiglass and the natural world as an extension of Medea’s emotional state. The walls are made of the black sands and trees of Colchis; both a traumatic memory and a reflection of the state of never feeling clean.